January 24, 2008

How many watchers does it take to make the eBay Pulse?

Zero, if you use a script. But seriously, how many watchers does it take to make the eBay Pulse?

The eBay Pulse has some filtering criteria other than just the number of watchers. The most watched items in a category are sometimes not shown. I don’t know why. Flickr.com imposes controls over their top photos of the day too.

Also, the number of listings shown on the Pulse varies from 0 to 10. This Pulse page for the Health & Beauty category shows no listings.

However, the watcher data from the eBay API shows a different story.

So, I’ll use eBay API watcher counts to show what it takes to be Pulse worthy.